The growing wave of progressive populists understand that raising taxes on billionaires is overwhelmingly popular — 77% of voters support doing so, including 71% of Independents and 65% of Republicans.

Is it not extremely obvious to everyone that the reflecting pool nonsense is where Trump is comfortable and he's pushing all of his attention onto that to avoid attention being paid to where he is uncomfortable...having gotten us into a war that he immediately lost?

do these guys realize they are just signing up for a recurring subscription

There’s a lot to unpack with the Iran negotiations, but here are the big takeaways: Kushner is there to work out the best deal for his own business interests, not the best deal for the U.S. “He is a fundamentally corrupted actor in these negotiations.” - Chris Murphy 1/2

Really wish I lived in a country where the botched renovation of a reflecting pool was actually the most serious problem and not just a metaphor for other, more serious problems.

“I carry with me a photo of a Muslim child who, during my visit to Lebanon, was standing there holding a sign that said ‘Welcome, Pope Leo,’ and in this latest phase of the war, he was killed. “As a Church, I say again: as a pastor, I cannot be in favor of war.” — Pope Leo XIV

Trump is trying to shift the decision about who gets to vote from the states to his administration, using benign sounding rules changes. There’s nothing more important to be aware of right now than this. Details here: substack.com/@joycevance/...

👇🎯 This, plus 50 years of systematic public underinvestment in all of the things that would have compensated the distributional & geographical losers from deindustrialization, justified (at least in 🇺🇸) by faux deficit hawkery & Ronald Reagan’s shabby talking points about government as the problem.

Trump is blaming “vandals” for allegedly cutting the lining and pouring “corrosive chemicals” into the water, all to avoid taking responsibility for paying an outrageous sum to a no-bid contractor who screwed up. The various police are security theater to support this false narrative. It’s all lies.

“We have always been the ones we have been waiting for.” Brilliantly stated.

I feel like it would somehow be fitting if Four Seasons Total Landscaping is called in to fix the reflecting pool

Questions like, “What’s wrong with the jagoff of a POTUS?”

He is literally losing an unprovoked war that he started against one-celled organisms.

They trashed the White House, used the entire federal government to promote this spectacle, and they only got 7 million viewers? For context, not only is this a lot less than other fights, the Puppy Bowl drew 15.3 million viewers this year.

You paid for a plane with "a level of luxury that nobody has never seen before". And he's apparently taking it with him once he leaves the White House. The plane. The ballroom. The corruption. This guy thinks taxpayers are dopes. Your money is just his to live a life of luxury.

You can't say the Trump administration has no interest in pursuing wrongdoing by rich people and corporations. If something juicy turns up, that's a lot of bribe money for the Trump family.

“You can’t touch the algae water”

The extent of Trump's destruction of Washington, D.C., is truly stunning. It's the ultimate metaphor. The algae-infested Reflecting Pool. The destroyed grass from the UFC event. The bulldozed East Wing grounds. "86 47" etched into the lawn near the Reflecting Pool. REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz

<-than-full democracies also are more likely to lose wars because - in this case, having bypassed the legislature at home & the UN Security Council internationally - they have a harder time making credible commitments & are more likely to rush into wars before building support at home & with allies.

I need y’all to remember this: Trump gets to keep Air Force One. It cost taxpayers nearly $1 billion to upgrade, and before he leaves office, ownership transfers to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation, which he himself said is “most likely going to be a hotel.”

The further Putinisation of America. State assets are used to finance the Dear Leader's luxury lifestyle.

The lessons to draw from this war were knowable before it began, and the people who started it will remain just as impervious to learning from its aftermath.

pete hegseth is engaged in open racial discrimination against black officers. the clear message is that there is no place for black or women leadership in his military

Balogun and Robinson grew up in England Dest grew up in the Netherlands Tillman and McKennie learned to play in Germany Pepi grew up between El Paso and Juarez Weah's dad was the fucking president of Liberia I don't think one nation means what they think it does

"Trump just simply cannot comprehend when other people won't play the part that he scripted out for them. When that happens, he gets frustrated, humiliated, and embarrassed, and so he just rewrites reality. So now, the Iranians are 'reasonable people'". - @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Zohran’s speech at the Knicks ceremony & Obama’s speech at the presidential center opening are cousins — two different ways of getting at the belief that hope is a choice, that hard work is worth it, that setbacks are never permanent & long odds are not fate. Stubborn collective optimism is back!

Starting to think this whole thing was just a front to launder the $14 million that the administration stole. jk, it was obvious from the start this is what they were doing

Absolutely this. Two kinds of people talk about IQ scores like they're meaningful -- very dumb people and very racist people, and they're usually both.

There are a lot of people making this more complicated than it is. Netanyahu talked Trump into thinking this would be a lot easier than it is, because Trump (and Hegseth) thinks "lethality" is a replacement for an actual strategy. They made things go "boom" and then wondered why they hadn't won.

Elon Musk’s DOGE cut the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program, which cost $15 million. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1 billion to combat the screwworm outbreak. Never forget how destructive and downright stupid DOGE was.

Moscow panorama 🔥✨

Just a friendly reminder. If the US had taken only a small fraction of the money and military equipment it has squandered fighting and losing to Iran, and instead helped Ukraine, the Middle East would be more stable and Russia would be facing defeat.

States do not need to contract with companies owned by oligarchs who seek those states' demise. No matter what services an anti-democracy oligarch's company provides, it is not in the national interest of any democracy to send them money. Some in Europe apparently realizing that. And acting on it.

And the memes are incoming now...

Take notes, democrats. This is the appropriate way to talk about republicans.

Both Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio seem to be describing Netanyahu using the same tactic 14 years apart. The difference is, it seems, the same tactic worked this time.

Migrants “are not just numbers or files,” Pope Leo said during his visit to the Canary Islands, which included a stop at a migrant center that provides emergency humanitarian aid. “You are people who have left behind families and homes. You have dreams that no one has the right to despise.”

"The Framers didn't intend for us to just sit back and say, 'Well we just have to wait out a criminal president who's acting continually in derogation of his duties, undermining the country and running it for his own ego and benefit.'"

“For a long time, fear was our story,” said Chef Torres, winner of a prestigious James Beard Award. “Today, standing on this stage, I want to say something that I never thought my younger self would have the opportunity to say. I am proud to be a son of immigrants. I am proud to be an immigrant.”

To recap: Trump campaigned on the idea that Biden was bad and Harris would be worse because they supported Ukraine and were holding back Benjamin Netanyahu. He did say "no new wars" and we can point-and-laugh at that, but it was obvious, at the time, that he meant "Let Russia Win Already."

Folks, we're recognizing an Iranian sphere of influence, withdrawing forces, and paying indemnities, in exchange for merely the same statement from Iran that they have always made about nuclear weapons.

Real diplomatic instruments are not full of basic grammatical errors and unintentional ambiguities. It is a unique humiliation that the American regime did not even have a professional translation and resolve ambiguities. They ran it through grok and signed it.

They must have signed the Persian original as proposed by Iran and unprofessionally translated, with minimal changes and no evaluation by professional State or Treasury staff. Baaically an Iranian diktat. Extraordinary.

This is the same text that was reported earlier. It's baaaad.

⚠️ The DOJ wants to cancel voter registrations across the country in the days leading up to the midterm elections in November. The alarming offensive is emerging in two court cases that could have far-reaching consequences for elections across the country — and SCOTUS could have the final say.

"The mere existence of trillionaires is a major political and economic problem, probably the defining issue of our time," writes @gabrielzucman.bsky.social. "When the power of wealth is wielded by sociopaths, the consequences are a matter of life and death."

The emphasis on how autistic kids will "never pay taxes, never hold a job" (which is bullshit) gives the game away. He's a eugenicist who wants you to believe that people with autism can't be productive members of society and are therefore surplus to requirements.

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